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Link Joker
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.04.13 22:41:00 -
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It is very, very difficult to kill a capsuler, they say. With training, implants and cloning we are effectively immortal; Provided of course, we update the clone on a regular basis, or spend most of our time in the pod.
So what do you do with your immortality? What do you want to do in the next century? For those of you who survived for a time as a capsuleer, what have you accomplished?
Discuss. |
Rek Jaiga
Teraa Matar White-Lotus
242
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Posted - 2012.04.13 23:25:00 -
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What do I do with my time? I search for truth and beauty. I fight for what's right, my family and my unborn daughter. I fight for the people who I'd be honored to accept me into the Tribes.
What do I hope to accomplish? Leave the world better off than how it was when I came into it, for my children and kin.
What have I accomplished? Not nearly enough. |
Graelyn
Knights of Kador Aegis Militia
230
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Posted - 2012.04.14 05:55:00 -
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In 8 years, I am much further along than I had planned.
Still, another century or so is to be expected for my ambitions to see fruition. + Cardinal Graelyn + Owner/Operator, "The Summit" YR113 Amarr Loyalist of the Year
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Daniel L'Siata
Echelon Conflict Resolution. Psychotic Tendencies.
100
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Posted - 2012.04.14 08:24:00 -
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Came expecting talk of cake, was dissapointed.
I'm a rather militant scientist, it's worked well so far.
So I shall simply have to keep forwarding the cause of science I don't want to set the world on fire... Just you.
Psychotic Tendencies is now recruiting skilled PvP pilots of all TZ's. |
Lyn Farel
Kitzless
246
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Posted - 2012.04.14 10:35:00 -
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In six years of capsule I have witnessed New Eden status decaying to a point that makes one wonder if we jumped back centuries ago.
I still continue to spend my time to learn and do what I can to see us all advance again together. I hope this will be the case in the next century, and more importantly, in the next milleniums. |
Elsebeth Rhiannon
Gradient Electus Matari
256
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Posted - 2012.04.14 11:23:00 -
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I've been a pilot for a little over eight years. I can count the people who I remember were there when I started and are still active and in space with the fingers of my hands. The ones who I know to be permanently dead are much more numerous.
I would not count too much on that "immortality" thing yet. |
Graelyn
Knights of Kador Aegis Militia
230
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Posted - 2012.04.15 03:04:00 -
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Mmm. Excellent point. + Cardinal Graelyn + Owner/Operator, "The Summit" YR113 Amarr Loyalist of the Year
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Rodj Blake
PIE Inc. Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
831
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Posted - 2012.04.15 10:12:00 -
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The capsuleer age is still relatively new.
We simply don't know what will happen to the psychology of podders after they have been regularly interfacing with their capsules for more than a century. I'm sure that the Jovians know, but they are not to be trusted.
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori. |
ValentinaDLM
Red Federation RvB - RED Federation
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Posted - 2012.04.16 00:32:00 -
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With my immortallity I have put my faith in one man, I wish to see his dreams become reality. If only I could be of some use to Master Kuvakei then my life as a capauleer was a success....
As far as what I have done, I was there with the Master in the Promised Land and i worked with some pretty Amazing people to help further the goals of Nation. Some are estranged at the moment but I am sure they will be back in due time. |
Fredfredbug4
Kings of Kill EVE Animal Control
201
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Posted - 2012.04.16 21:04:00 -
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I've only been swimming in pod goo for less than 2 years, though due to a cloning related problem it's more along the lines of 1 year. I'm still learning from more seasoned capsuleers but I hope to find a way to resolve the differences between the nations once and for all. |
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Arkady Vachon
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
32
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Posted - 2012.04.18 06:09:00 -
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The capsuleer existence is a new experience for me, as well. It is something to be explored, and furthered upon.
Perhaps one day I will grow tired of this form of immortality, tired of knowing that those who do not share the status of capsuleer are fated to grow old and perish while we live on as copies many times removed from our original forms. One cannot help but wonder if we will remain the same as centuries drag on - if we will become indifferent and callous gods amongst the masses.
Of course, some would say that there are those capsuleers who have already started down that path.
No, when the time comes that I have seen and experienced all that I wish to in this immortal life - when I have made my mark and legacy in this cluster to my satisfaction - then I will set my affairs in order. Then I will terminate my gestating and waiting clones, unplug myself from my pod for all time, and perhaps retire to some out of the way world to live out my days.
Or set the autopilot of my vessel to dive into a system primary, or perhaps the EVE Gate whilst I stand on the bridge and contemplate this new adventure before me.
*nods and switches off the commlink*
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Halete
Teraa Matar White-Lotus
69
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Posted - 2012.04.18 06:40:00 -
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I'm going to have to be delightfully humdrum and say that the only thing that has changed for me on a personal level is that I've become exceedingly difficult to get rid of good, something I am sure that I will enjoy exploiting fully.
So far I don't believe that this realization has changed me as a person, or my outlook - yet. But I still find it intensely interesting do see the opinions of pilots 'older' than I am. Remembers, fly Frigates - Capsuleers are more tenacious than baseliner crews.-á |
Zukes Bla'hati
Teraa Matar White-Lotus
5
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Posted - 2012.04.18 10:25:00 -
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I'm still a very new pilot and have very much to learn from others.
With my immortality I plan on growing as much as I can as a person. At the least, I hope that I am able to touch the lives of the other capsuleers that I'm around.
I'm hoping to fight alongside my new family and make them proud.
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Halete
Teraa Matar White-Lotus
69
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Posted - 2012.04.18 10:56:00 -
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Zukes Bla'hati wrote:I'm still a very new pilot and have very much to learn from others.
With my immortality I plan on growing as much as I can as a person. At the least, I hope that I am able to touch the lives of the other capsuleers that I'm around.
I'm hoping to fight alongside my new family and make them proud.
Some would already say that you've succeeded in a few of those goals. Remembers, fly Frigates - Capsuleers are more tenacious than baseliner crews.-á |
Zukes Bla'hati
Teraa Matar White-Lotus
5
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Posted - 2012.04.18 11:55:00 -
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Halete wrote:Zukes Bla'hati wrote:I'm still a very new pilot and have very much to learn from others.
With my immortality I plan on growing as much as I can as a person. At the least, I hope that I am able to touch the lives of the other capsuleers that I'm around.
I'm hoping to fight alongside my new family and make them proud.
Some would already say that you've succeeded in a few of those goals.
Perhaps.
Even if those goals are already met, it doesn't hurt to continue to expand upon them.
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Giane Orlenard
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.04.19 03:50:00 -
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I can't even figure out what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow, and everybody else is thinking about what they're doing next century?
... 'm so screwed.
Er, sorry. |
Andreus Ixiris
Mixed Metaphor Federal Consensus Outreach
797
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Posted - 2012.04.19 08:31:00 -
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I've been a capsuleer for something like six years now. I've become rich, although not as rich as some, and skilled, although not as skilled as some. I've gained money, respect and power, and lost it as well, although I always end up with a little more of each than I had to begin with. I've fought and won wars, and lost them as well. I've wielded power - sometimes I've had it taken from me, and other times I've held it long enough to simply grow bored of it and find something else. I've made friends and enemies, and forged other relationships less easily definiable - and ended them, too. I've seen the depths of wormhole space and the very edges of New Eden, and I've visited every single one of the core worlds too. I've been a miner, a researcher, an industrialist, a warrior, a mercenary, an advisor, a follower, a leader and a wanderer.
I don't think that, in any single endeavour, I've been as successful as other capsuleers who've mastered it, but I am secure in the knowledge that not every capsuleer has experienced as broad a selection of experiences as I have.
Right now, I'm content to use the considerable knowledge I've accrued over the course of my career to assist a burgeoning alliance that supports the same ideologies as I do. Andreus Anthony LeHane Ixiris CEO, Mixed Metaphor
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Telegram Sam
The Drones Club
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Posted - 2012.04.20 21:32:00 -
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I hope that after one century of life, I'll be as wise as some of the old grandfathers I've met. Then, with the second century of life, I hope to live with the wisdom of a grandfather, but with a body still fit and strong enough for action. |
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
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Posted - 2012.04.20 22:26:00 -
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Here are, in chronological sequence, the crucial things I learned upon becoming a capsuleer:
1. I can make more money than ever before. 2. I AM making more money than ever before. 3. I can make more money than all other pilots. 4. I HAVE made more money than all other pilots. 5. Money is completely without meaning. 6. The human universe operates in cycles of annihilation. 7. Civilizations rise rapidly until reaching a critical point of evolution. 8. After this point, the civilizations vanish. We are at the end-stage of such a cycle. 9. The one common element in each cycle is the presence of the Jovians. 10. We are not such a common element. We are about to cease to exist.
11. I will continue to exist regardless of what happens to the rest of you.
That last one is a present, personal goal. |
Telegram Sam
The Drones Club
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Posted - 2012.04.23 14:07:00 -
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Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:Here are, in chronological sequence, the crucial things I learned upon becoming a capsuleer 1. I can make more money than ever before 2. I AM making more money than ever before 3. I can make more money than all other pilots 4. I HAVE made more money than all other pilots 5. Money is completely without meaning 6. The human universe operates in cycles of annihilation. 7. Civilizations rise rapidly until reaching a critical point of evolution. 8. After this point, the civilizations vanish. We are at the end-stage of such a cycle. 9. The one common element in each cycle is the presence of the Jovians. 10. We are not such a common element. We are about to cease to exist 11. I will continue to exist regardless of what happens to the rest of you That last one is a present, personal goal.
A very interesting outlook, sir. It necessarily gives rise to the conclusion that capsuleers are not immortal after all. If this civilization is subject to the law of entropy, it will someday come to an end. In such case, it seems probable that technology and communication levels would decline as well. Should that happen, the extravagances of capsule and mind retransplantation technologies may be the first to fail. In which case, we capsuleers might find that we are quite mortal after all. |
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Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
289
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Posted - 2012.04.25 16:09:00 -
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Telegram Sam wrote:A very interesting outlook, sir. It necessarily gives rise to the conclusion that capsuleers are not immortal after all. If this civilization is subject to the law of entropy, it will someday come to an end. In such case, it seems probable that technology and communication levels would decline as well. Should that happen, the extravagances of capsule and mind retransplantation technologies may be the first to fail. In which case, we capsuleers might find that we are quite mortal after all.
Those of us who haven't taken steps to ensure our survival even through such a cataclysm, anyway. I'm taking lots of notes from this Kuvakei fellow - he survived the four empires coming down on his head; I want in on that action. |
Snowflake Tem
The Order of Symbolic Measures
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Posted - 2012.04.25 20:20:00 -
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They say that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Who better to stand sentinel than the immortal?
It is not just the individuality of life itself that is precious, it is the otherwise mundane commodities that we share that go into sustaining it and make it flourish. You give me credit and I will give you the building blocks to build palaces to your aspirations
Yet when the deathly chill of lawless space reaches in to still the hearts of the free. Then - then the vigilant have no choice but to put aside their technological sickles and disregard our current petty squabbles to turn and join with our militant brothers in arms in defending our way of life
Even for the the immortal, there is only liberty - or death
Wait. watch. You will know when it is time. |
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations Shaktipat Revelators
220
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Posted - 2012.04.25 20:29:00 -
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Snowflake Tem wrote:They say that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Who better to stand sentinel than the immortal?
It is not just the individuality of life itself that is precious, it is the otherwise mundane commodities that we share that go into sustaining it and make it flourish. You give me credit and I will give you the building blocks to build palaces to your aspirations
Yet when the deathly chill of lawless space reaches in to still the hearts of the free. Then - then the vigilant have no choice but to put aside their technological sickles and disregard our current petty squabbles to turn and join with our militant brothers in arms in defending our way of life
Even for the the immortal, there is only liberty - or death
Wait. watch. You will know when it is time.
I disagree with this assertion. I believe it is fairly trite and simplistic. I also believe that it holds a uselessly rosy view of liberty that, none-the-less, your average capsuleer will agree with because they would rather not have limits on their potential power. |
Snowflake Tem
The Order of Symbolic Measures
70
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Posted - 2012.04.25 20:54:00 -
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Tiberious Thessalonia wrote: I disagree with this assertion. I believe it is fairly trite and simplistic. I also believe that it holds a uselessly rosy view of liberty that, none-the-less, your average capsuleer will agree with because they would rather not have limits on their potential power.
The shackles of your masters utopia are kept well at arms reach. I've listened to your seductive whispers before, they hold no power.
There is a greater swarm of Immortals equally bent on domination and the disruption of trade. I have to wonder if you stand together in your pursuits. |
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations Shaktipat Revelators
220
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Posted - 2012.04.25 20:57:00 -
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Snowflake Tem wrote:[quote=Tiberious Thessalonia I disagree with this assertion. I believe it is fairly trite and simplistic. I also believe that it holds a uselessly rosy view of liberty that, none-the-less, your average capsuleer will agree with because they would rather not have limits on their potential power.[/quote
The shackles of your masters utopia are kept well at arms reach. I've listened to your seductive whispers before, they hold no power
There is a greater swarm of Immortals equally bent on domination and the disruption of trade. I have to wonder if you stand together in your pursuits.
If the CFC want to disrupt the other empires, I certaintly won't try to stop them. At the same time, I won't be participating because I consider mining barges, industrials, and the like to be civilian targets, and won't shoot at them unless specifically ordered to do so.
You speak in a very flowery manner, by the by. |
Snowflake Tem
The Order of Symbolic Measures
70
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Posted - 2012.04.25 21:35:00 -
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Tiberious Thessalonia wrote: You speak in a very flowery manner, by the by.
Thank you, I think. It sometimes helps to blunt Mater directness. I like to remain civil where I can. It is good for business. |
Lyn Farel
Kitzless
259
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Posted - 2012.04.26 12:13:00 -
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Tiberious Thessalonia wrote: I disagree with this assertion. I believe it is fairly trite and simplistic. I also believe that it holds a uselessly rosy view of liberty that, none-the-less, your average capsuleer will agree with because they would rather not have limits on their potential power.
CONCORD has done thousand times better than the Nation to restrain capsuleer "potential power". And they could do even more if required.
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote: At the same time, I won't be participating because I consider mining barges, industrials, and the like to be civilian targets, and won't shoot at them unless specifically ordered to do so.
You do quite the paltry Sansha loyalist. I wish you well in your work for a change in some of their ideologies. |
Braka Hareka
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Posted - 2012.04.29 15:41:00 -
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Immortality is an heavy burden to bear for most, and capsulers seem more insulated then most against the flow of the centuries then the average mortal utilizing chemicals to attempt to prolong their life. I will acknowledge that while I have been an immortal for just under a month now I can see my end goals shaping themselves ahead of me, in that I wish to advance capsulers into a great union of our own, unbound from the constraints of mortals who seek to use us, as a tool to strike their foes and to ensure that they grow old and lessen their worry's. "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths, a statistic"
Joseph Stalin |
Naira Shandr
Shandr-Ishizu Manufacturing
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Posted - 2012.05.07 19:33:00 -
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Build, sell, live in the lap of luxury. Rinse and repeat as necessary.
Edit: I've always found the concept of gladiators fascinating. Owning a team and watching those of lower status rise to champions would be a worthwhile endevour. |
Raphael Ordo
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Posted - 2012.05.08 11:36:00 -
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We enter an age where the past no longer can foretell the future. An age of immortal pilots, immortal soldiers and immortal leaders. In the end, the only constant in the universe is change.
I say mankind is doomed into madness. Our minds unable to comprehend or accept the inevitable end of things.
Only way to be truly immortal, we would have to leave our bodies for good and merge with our machines. Thus my ultimate goal is brought to light. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output.
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